Kevin Johnson on green building guide
From Impact of Sustainability on Small Business: Detroit Economic Growth Corporation CEO Kevin Johnson · · SBN Detroit
“the green building guide was designed to show those small businesses and others what principles to adopt and how to adopt them in order to get them from where they were to where they wanted to be and so that road map has been very popular it has also given the small business Community The Pride that it takes in order to put that into their into their business planning and operations”
On , Kevin Johnson, Board member at Independent Board Member, spoke about green building guide during Impact of Sustainability on Small Business: Detroit Economic Growth Corporation CEO Kevin Johnson on SBN Detroit.
About Kevin Johnson
Kevin Johnson, co-founder and chief operating officer of Bud Ecosystem, appeared at Dell Technologies World 2026 to discuss the company's approach to enterprise AI. Johnson stated that many enterprises are "skimming" with third-party AI tools, but argued that "deep AI that's valuable in the enterprise" requires re-architecting workloads and workflows for better efficiency and cost-effectiveness. He said Bud Ecosystem is building a "more elegant solution" that can help enterprises focus on AI strategy rather than building "stove-pipes of infrastructure," and claimed the company can reduce costs "up to 80%" with governance in a single plane. In a separate appearance on the podcast "Insurance, You Indemnify Me," Johnson discussed his background as an independent insurance agency owner. He said he is an Aurora, Colorado native, holds a marketing degree from Metropolitan State University of Denver, and began his agency in January 2022, writing over a million dollars in premium in his first year. Johnson noted that he left the carrier side of the business because of changes to compensation structures, and described his current work as "way more intense" than his previous career.